大学英语综合教程4第7单元ppt

• for nothing:
• without payment free; with no reward or result
• Eg: I know the cyber bar manager • so I always get in for nothing. • All that hard work for nothing!
Language points
• reflect on/upon: • think deeply about, remind oneself of • Eg: It’s a good habit to reflect on what you have done in the past. • We must reflect on the influence of the television violence on the children.
What does the last part of the essay (paras20-30)deal with?Why does the author orgnizationally make such an arrangement?
• The last part deals with the so-called dream boom. In this way it echoes the very beginning of the essay-the title and the subtitle
Damage
• Including New York landmarks,the World Trade Center towers six buildings were completely destroyed, the other 23 high-rise buildings have been destroyed, the U.S. Department of Defense headquarters in the Pentagon were attacked.
• back up:
• support; make a copy of
• Only a few employees backed him up in the election.
• recur: • happen again or repeatedly. • Eg: Eclipses recur at regular interview. • Although he was not caught cheating on the exam, the feelings of guilt recurred over and over again
She was a special assistant to the president in the White House of Ronald Reagan. Before that she was a producer at CBS News in New York. In 1978 and 1979 she was an adjunct professor of journalism at New York University.
• contend:
• struggle or compete (usu. Followed by with, or for)
• Eg: Several teams are contending for the rize. • She has had a lot of problems to contend with
Unit 7
Terrorism
By 白依璐
中医10本二班
The nightmare and the dream
--how has Sept.11 affected our national unconscious?
Peqqy Noonan
Pre-reading Global-reading Detailed-reading After-reading
She is the author of eight books on American politics and culture. The most recent, "Patriotic Grace," is to be published in October 2008. Her first book, the bestseller "What I Saw at the Revolution: A Political Life in the Reagan Era," was published in 1990.
• Friends and neighbors, sisters and brothers, mothers and fathers, sons and daughters –- they were taken from us with a heartbreaking swiftness and cruelty. And on September 12, 2001, we awoke to a world in which evil was closer at hand, and uncertainty clouded our future.
Pre-reading
A. Author introduction
B. The 911 event in profile
About Peggy Noonan Peggy Noonan is a columnist for The Wall Street Journal whose work appears weekly in the Journal's o Weekend Edition and on OpinionJournal.com.
Important words
• • • • • • • • • • 1.周刊专栏 2.思考，考虑 3.不受干扰的美丽 4.免费 5.在形式上看 6.将…试为范例 7.强烈影响 8.勉强接受 9.发表，出版 10.一排排的 • • • • • • • • • • Weekly colamn Reflect on/upon Undisturbed beauty For nothing In the form of Hold up Packed a wallop Settle for Come out The row of
• Thus I decided to rest my aged bones and ponder for a while.
• obscure:
• not easily seen or understood; not wellknown • Eg: The letter is written in rather obscure language. • The reasons why he did it are obscure
• settle for: • accept (sth. That is seen as not quite satisfactory)
• Eg: I would like a job in banking, but jobs are so scarce at the moment I would settle for anything.
Important words `
• • • • • • • • • • 11.突然 12.婴儿潮 13.支持 14.夜梦激增 15.反复 16.世贸中心 17.未来 18.寄送，递交 19. 国民的潜意识 20.尊重是记录 • • • • • • • • • • All of a sudden Baby boom Back up Dream boom Over and over World Trade Center Down the road Send in a nation’s unconscious To respect is to record
• hold up: • put (sb/sth.) forward as an example, show
• Eg: This school is being held up as a model for other middle schools in the city.
• My sister was always held up to me as a model child.
• Virginia was a perfectionist. She was just not prepared to settle for anything mediocre.
• ponder: • think about careБайду номын сангаасully and for a long time； • ponder sth; ponder on/over sth; ponder+wh • Eg: My parents pondered on when to send me abroad for study.
Text Orgnization
• 1.People seem to love the Brooklyn Bridge more than ever before. • 2. People grow more friendly to one another regardless of race. • 3. It is a fashion new for people to wear ID tags. • 4. There seemed to be having more bad boom after Stept.11 at least in Brooklyn. • 5.People seem to be having more bad dreams Stept.11-related
Ten years ago, America confronted one of our darkest nights. Mighty towers crumbled. Black smoke billowed up from the Pentagon. Airplane wreckage smoldered on a Pennsylvania field.
Remarks by the President at "A Concert for Hope" Kennedy Center Washington, D.C. 8:12 P.M. EDT
THE PRESIDENT: The Bible tells us -“weeping may endure for a night, but joy cometh in the morning.”
Back
9.11
• The September 11 attacks (often referred to as September 11th or 9/11) were a series of coordinated suicide attacks by al-Qaeda upon the United States on September 11, 2001. Four commercial jet airliners where two of it were being crashed into the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center in New York City, another jet into the Pentagon in Arlington, Virginia, just outside Washington, D.C., and the fourth plane crashed into a field near Shanks Ville in rural Pennsylvania